Béatrice Fervers received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees. From 2011 to 2017, she held the CLARA Environment, Nutrition and Cancer Chair of Excellence, supported by Merck Serono. She is an Oncologist by training. She is also an Associate Professor. She heads the Cancer and Environment Department, Léon Bérard Cancer Centre, Lyon, France, and is also with the Cancer Research Center of Lyon (UMR INSERM 1052 CNRS 5286). She coordinates interdisciplinary research to investigate environmental exposures and their impact on cancer. Her research uses geographic information systems to characterize environmental exposures at a fine spatial scale and over long periods.